This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.